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FBIS4-1873_0 | Infrastructure Attracts Investors to Zhejiang | BFN [Text] Hangzhou, April 4 (XINHUA) -- Convenient communications and ample energy supplies have made East China's Zhejiang Province one of the best choices for discriminating foreign investors. Thanks to its booming processing industry, which has enjoyed priority in development, the province has jumped up during the ... |
FBIS4-1875_0 | UN Holds Training Course on Power Station Technologies | BFN [Text] Hangzhou, April 4 (XINHUA) -- A United Nations-sponsored training course on technologies of small hydropower stations started here today. The two-month course has drawn more than 40 students from 20 countries. Small hydropower stations offer clean energy, and China has more than 60,000 such stations generati... |
FBIS4-1880_2 | New Book on U.S.-China Relations Noted | States and China, the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights Protection, and the consideration in accepting China's application to restore its GATT membership, are all useful apparatuses to guarantee mutual benefit and interest in U.S.-Chinese economic relations. From the angle of security, a militarily powerful Chi... |
FBIS4-1960_1 | Relatives Say Wei Jingsheng Still Detained Public Security Refuses Comment | parole and while still being deprived of his political rights. The Public Security department has the right to interrogate according to the law." Wei's relatives as well as his close friends said Monday they had received no word at all from the dissident since his arrest at 5:00 p.m. Friday afternoon (0900 GMT) some 20... |
FBIS4-1963_0 | Activist Zhai Weimin Released From 3-Week Detention | BFN [By Bruce Gilley] [Text] Chinese authorities released a pro-democracy activist, Zhai Weimin, from detention in western Henan province last Tuesday [29 March], but are not allowing him to return to Beijing. Instead, Zhai's normal political rights, which were to have been restored on September 13, a year after his re... |
FBIS4-1964_0 | Crowds Honor Dead Ancestors in Beijing, Police Watch | BFN [By Philippe Massonnet] [Text] Beijing, April 5 (AFP)--Chinese honored their dead Tuesday [5 April], as police kept a close eye on families of pro-democracy demonstrators killed five years ago in the Tiananmen massacre. Crowds gathered at the large Baboashan cemetery west of the capital to celebrate Qing Ming, the ... |
FBIS4-1972_0 | UN Delegate Links Population, Economic Development | BFN [Text] United Nations, April 4 (XINHUA) -- The population issue is, in essence, an issue of development, and the two issues are interwoven, a Chinese delegate said here today. Peng Yu, head of the Chinese delegation, was speaking at the third session of the preparatory committee for the International Conference on ... |
FBIS4-1981_2 | Northeast Works To Protect Water Resources | from northeast China's provinces and one autonomous region and 12 ministries and commissions under the central government, and its jurisdiction was enlarged to cover both the Songhua and the Liaohe Rivers. Years of practice have proven such a trans-regional leading organization is effective in cleaning up and controlli... |
FBIS4-1997_0 | Residents Along River in Gansu Grow Prosperous | BFN [Text] Lanzhou, March 16 (XINHUA) -- More and more residents of northwest China's Gansu Province are now becoming better off with the construction and operation of hydroelectric power stations on the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River. Local farmers in drought-hit areas such as Yongjing County, Dongxiang ... |
FBIS4-2007_0 | Water Control Projects Benefit Qinghai Harvests | BFN [Text] Xining, March 9 (XINHUA) -- Seven consecutive years of bumper grain harvests have been achieved in northwest China's Qinghai Province due to years of hard efforts in building water control facilities. The province has limited precipitation and water resources. While ensuring a proper use of the existing wate... |
FBIS4-2016_2 | Minister Urges Developing `Pillar Industries' | increase in resources investment by utilizing electronics technology to transform traditional industries and to develop high-technology products that save energy and resources. The electronics, engineering, automobile, and petrochemical industries have greater growth potential than other industries, and thus play a gre... |
FBIS4-2021_0 | New Law To Suppress Unfair Trade, Monopolies Considered | BFN [By Wu Yunhe: "New Law Against Unfair Trade Is Being Weighed"] [Text] China is considering drafting a new law against trade monopolies. Such a law could help the government in shifting the country away from a centrally planned economy, said an official with the State Administration for Industry & Commerce. China al... |
FBIS4-2026_1 | Joint-Venture Enterprises To Build Large Power Units | by Chinese enterprises and a foreign company that wins the international bid. According to Li Shouren, chief engineer of the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, the Three Gorges Project will need a total of 26 large generating sets, each with a 700,000 kw capacity. The design and manufacturing process for the hydrau... |
FBIS4-2030_2 | Regulations on Mineral Rights Fees | is required to prepare only a mining plan instead of a blueprint, the percentage of recovery shall be determined by the department in charge of geology and mineral resources management under the local people's government at and above the county level together with other relevant departments. Where mineral rights fees f... |
FBIS4-2033_1 | Beijing Secretary on Recovering Deficits | become knotty problems tolerating no neglect at present. Yuan Zhenguo, manager of the Beibingyang Foodstuffs Company; Lin Shichang, director of the first knitwear mill; Zhang Kean, director of the printing and dyeing mill; Song Borao, director of the chemical briber plant; Qiao Guichen, director of the battery plant; L... |
FBIS4-2038_9 | Heilongjiang Secretary Speaks on Cadres' Work | active and reliable steps to handle the difficult problems in reform. In deepening enterprise reform, we must withstand the strains of the employment problem of workers in enterprises which are ordered to shut down, suspend operation, amalgamate with other enterprises or switch to the manufacture of other products, and... |
FBIS4-2043_5 | Inner Mongolia Secretary on Propaganda Work | propaganda and ideological work. In theoretical study, an extremely important work for Inner Mongolia is to arm the vast numbers of cadres and the masses with the Marxist concept of nationalities and the party's policy towards nationalities. Through the realistic, profound, and extensive education on the theory and pol... |
FBIS4-2052_30 | Tianjin Mayor Discusses Economic Work | make arrangements for the work of relying on scientific and technological progress, and achieve actual progress. We should expedite the development of a new technology industrial park. The park must be built to become our municipality's high and new-tech industrial base, the source of radiation in transforming traditio... |
FBIS4-2054_0 | Journalists Protest PRC Sentencing of Reporter | BFN [By Michael Smith and Jim Cheung] [Text] Anger over China's sentencing of a local reporter to 12 years' imprisonment mounted yesterday with more than 80 journalists demonstrating outside the Xinhua News Agency to call for their colleague's release. The protest came 24 hours after China confirmed Ming Pao reporter X... |
FBIS4-2105_16 | Work Report of Liaoning Provincial Procuratorate | personnel to correct their investigation activities from violating the law. Meanwhile, we made the decision not to arrest 2,755 suspected criminals whose crimes did not conform with the regulations of law and ensured that every criminal was handled with no wrong treatment or appeasement. B. We enhanced supervision over... |
FBIS4-2131_0 | Beijing Secretary Inspects Money-Losing Plant | BFN [By Yan Liqiang (0917 0500 1730): "Chen Xitong Conducts Investigation and Study Activities in the Municipal Nonferrous Metal Industrial Corporation and Xinyue Copper Tube Plant"] [Excerpts] On 25 March, Chen Xitong, secretary of the municipal party committee, went to the municipal nonferrous metal industrial corpor... |
FBIS4-2135_0 | Police Reportedly Detain Secretary of Wei Jingsheng Tong Yi `Missing' for 2 Days | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 6 (AFP) -- Friends of Tong Yi, the secretary of China's most famous dissident, Wei Jingsheng, expressed concern Wednesday that she had been detained, saying she had been missing for two days. Tong has been out of contact since Monday afternoon, when police searched Wei's office here and took a... |
FBIS4-2137_0 | Police Reportedly Detain Secretary of Wei Jingsheng Paper Views Arrest of Wei | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall in Beijing] [Text] China's best-known dissident, Wei Jingsheng, could be facing new criminal charges and a possible second prison term following his detention by the Beijing public security authorities. The official Chinese media announced yesterday that Wei was being investigated by the polic... |
FBIS4-2140_3 | Reporter Has `Fair Chance' of Winning Appeal Paper Examines Implications | Xi and Tian, who got 15 years last week. Wei was given a 15-year term in 1979 -- when China was still recovering from the lawlessness of the Cultural Revolution -- for allegedly obtaining military secrets. Bao, who was charged with leaking Politburo decisions to the student "rebels" at Tiananmen Square got seven years.... |
FBIS4-2141_0 | Student With Wreath Seized in Tiananmen Square | BFN [Text] Police seized a Chinese student who tried to lay a wreath in Tiananmen Square yesterday. The unidentified man apparently entered the square -- focus of the 1989 crackdown -- at about 11 am. One witness said: "The student was carrying an average-sized wreath of the kind used to commemorate the dead." Another ... |
FBIS4-2142_1 | Report: Foreign-Funded Plants Mistreat Workers | put into operation. On the whole, the labor relations in foreign- invested enterprises are stable, and most foreign-invested enterprises operate and organize production according to the law, but there are some quite serious labor-relations problems in some foreign-invested enterprises. According to surveys recently con... |
FBIS4-2142_3 | Report: Foreign-Funded Plants Mistreat Workers | in less than a month, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. Insult, Punishment, and Beating 2. Workers are insulted, punished, or beaten, and their personal rights are encroached upon at will. Some foreign-invested enterprises do not respect minimum human rights, ignore China's laws, and use extremely brutal and backw... |
FBIS4-2147_2 | MOFTEC Issues Rules on Capital Construction | to be responsible for examining and summarizing the long-term plans, application plans, and draft plans of their subsidiaries, and for submitting them to MOFERT. II. Compilation, Submission, and Approval of Design Documents (I) Project Proposals and Design Reports 1. With regard to the construction of large- and medium... |
FBIS4-2183_7 | Article Reviews 1993 Anticorruption Efforts | and failed to ask discipline inspection committees and organizational departments of a higher level to attend such meetings and to report to the masses the results of self-inspection. They only conducted such meetings perfunctorily, blatantly just going through the motion. We should draw our attention to this situation... |
FBIS4-2183_8 | Article Reviews 1993 Anticorruption Efforts | run by local authorities, much of their work depends on the support and help of various departments. When someone pleads for an accused, especially when he is a leading cadre, the investigators are under pressure to weigh up the matter, thus affecting the impartiality of their investigation. Second, there is nothing in... |
FBIS4-2183_12 | Article Reviews 1993 Anticorruption Efforts | than supervise and bind the leaders themselves to rules. These anticorruption rules are written on paper and posted on walls, but are hardly implemented. In particular, when unhealthy practices such as arbitrary levies are linked with the awards, welfare, and work conditions of a unit, these unhealthy practices will be... |
FBIS4-2204_25 | Shanxi Government Work Report | to a given percentage, strengthen fiscal management in the rural areas, keep accounts open and effectively reduce peasants' burdens. It is important to devote major efforts to poverty relief, increase input into the work, speed up the construction of infrastructural facilities, such as roads, power plants, and telecomm... |
FBIS4-2204_37 | Shanxi Government Work Report | families of martyrs and armymen, as well as the handicapped, also have a difficult time making ends meet. Governments at all levels must take effective measures to deal with these problems. In order to correctly handle the relations between accumulation and consumption, it is necessary to uphold the principle of "first... |
FBIS4-2210_0 | Wei Jingsheng, Others `Outsiders' | BFN [By Gilles Campion] [Excerpts] Beijing, April 7 (AFP)--China launched a fresh verbal assault Thursday on its most famous dissident, Wei Jingsheng, warning he faced prosecution despite attempts by the United States to intervene on his behalf. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin told a press conference that Wei, de... |
FBIS4-2211_3 | Wu Yi Interviewed on Sino-U.S. Trade | construction projects, 200 projects involving machine-building and electrical equipment, 100 electronics projects, 100 petrochemical projects, 50 projects related to metallurgy and other industrial raw materials, and 30 projects involving agriculture, livestock breeding and forestry. Q: How many similar purchasing dele... |
FBIS4-2211_6 | Wu Yi Interviewed on Sino-U.S. Trade | in 1993, a rise of 29 percent over 1992. Imports for this year will stay at or above last year's level, and the total import value over the coming seven years is expected to hit US$1,000 billion. The country plans to import 210 key technological items valued at US$30 billion between 1993 and 2000. Along with the reform... |
FBIS4-2242_0 | Beijing Police Arrest Dissident Xu Wenli Wang Dan Urges Release of Wei, Xu | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 8 (AFP)--Former student democracy leader Wang Dan called on the government later Friday to release both Wei and Xu. "I am surprised by these arrests and I call on the government to release them immediately," he told AFP by telephone. "The situation is much more tense than last year," Wang adde... |
FBIS4-2248_6 | Official Explains New Religious Regulations | up. Question: What is the spirit of "China's relevant regulations" in Article 7 of the "Provisions"? Answer: That is the principle of separating religion from education in our country. The selection of students sent to foreign countries to receive religious education in order to train as clerics is different from the s... |
FBIS4-2251_2 | `Roundup' Views Organ Transplantation Advances | hypoplasia in recent years, said experts. The study of organ transplantation in China began in the 1970s, about ten years later than abroad. However, all the kinds of organ transplants which have been developed elsewhere in the world can now also be done in China, said Qiu Fazu, honorary president of the Wuhan-located ... |
FBIS4-2294_0 | Ministry Says Travel in Mainland Carries `Grave Risk' | BFN [By Flor Wang] [Text] Taipei, April 7 (CNA) -- The disaster in which 24 Taiwan tourists were killed last Thursday [7 April] on Lake Qiandao (Thousand Island Lake) in Mainland China's Zhejiang Province is only the tip of the iceberg as far as travel problems in Mainland China go, according to the Ministry of Economi... |
FBIS4-2297_0 | Taipei To Grow With Southeast Asian Economies | BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, April 7 (CNA) -- President Li Teng-hui said Thursday [7 April] he is optimistic about the economic prospects of Southeast Asia and Taiwan's role within the region. "Southeast Asia is one of the fastest-growing areas and is attracting ever-increasing attention from other parts of the wor... |
FBIS4-2310_0 | Beijing Police Arrest Dissident Xu Wenli 3d Action in Week | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 8 (AFP)--Chinese dissident Xu Wenli was detained by police Friday, his wife said, in the third such action against pro-democracy activists in a week. Xu was picked up by police on Thursday then returned home around midnight, but was detained again on Friday, the wife, Kang Tong, said. Xu, 49, ... |
FBIS4-2333_0 | Further on Visit by French Prime Minister Balladur, Juppe Comment on Arrests | BFN [Text] After the arrest of two dissidents in Beijing, there have been reports that two more dissidents were arrested in Shanghai just before the arrival in town of the French prime minister. The French delegation immediately demanded explanations from the Chinese authorities, only to be told that these arrests had ... |
FBIS4-2367_0 | Shanghai Enforces Laws Against Commercial Fraud | BFN [From the "Morning News" program] [Text] The enforcement of the Shanghai Municipal Price Bureau's interim provisions against price cheating and schemes to reap exorbitant profits began throughout the municipality on 1 April. Acts of price cheating and acts of seeking exorbitant profits are clearly defined by the pr... |
FBIS4-2407_0 | Society Acclaimed for Ship Survey Quality System | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 8 (XINHUA) -- The China Classification Society (CCS) has just been awarded a quality system certificate issued by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), it was announced here today. Dong Jiufeng, CCS's president, told a press conference that this demonstrates that Ch... |
FBIS4-2424_1 | Premier: PRC Handling of Qiandao Tragedy `Inhuman' MAC Chairman Lists Questions | Huang said in a press briefing held at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. The briefing was attended by some 150 foreign and local reporters, as well as relatives of the Taiwan victims. The deaths occurred March 31 on Lake Qiandao, or Thousand Island lake, in the coastal Province of Zhejiang. The bodies were found o... |
FBIS4-2433_3 | Legislator Jimmy McGregor on Case | times. We have undergone terrible stresses and strains as China herself has writhed and groaned under the calamity of revolution and violent change. Through it all, the Hong Kong people have remained essentially Chinese patriots, loving their mother country despite being at odds with the political system which governs ... |
FBIS4-2437_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Police Question Journalists | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 8 (AFP)--Five foreign journalists were briefly held and questioned by Chinese police Friday when they tried to visit the wife of detained dissident Xu Wenli. A dozen policemen stopped the journalists as they arrived Friday afternoon at Kang Tong's housing compound, one of the foreigners said. ... |
FBIS4-2439_6 | Jiangsu Governor Delivers Work Report | various types of reforms which involved such efforts as transforming, transferring, leasing, contracting, and selling. Collective enterprises and village and town enterprises in cities and towns actively explored ways to innovate their systems, and nearly 10,000 village and town enterprises implemented the shareholding... |
FBIS4-2439_41 | Jiangsu Governor Delivers Work Report | quality, diversify its operations, open up domestic and overseas construction markets, and raise its economic efficiency. Concentrate strength to improve infrastructure and basic industries. We will maintain a reasonable size of investment, optimize the investment mix, and make sure that the limited financial and mater... |
FBIS4-2452_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Dissident Bao Ge Arrested | BFN [By Giles Hewitt] [Text] Beijing, April 9 (AFP)--Leading Chinese dissident Bao Ge was picked up by police Saturday morning from his home in Shanghai, a dissident source said, announcing the fifth detention of a pro-democracy campaigner in China in eight days. Bao was seized just 12 hours after the arrest of another... |
FBIS4-2453_3 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Wang Jiaqi Makes `Daring Escape' | speculated that worker unrest has been stirred up by an organised group of activists. Several human rights groups have accused officials of stepping up surveillance and detention of suspected worker leaders. "They are out to stamp out all labour activity," one source said. "This is far more threatening to the Chinese r... |
FBIS4-2454_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Spokesman on Xu Wenli | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 11 (AFP) -- Chinese dissident Xu Wenli, arrested Friday in Beijing, was picked up by police for having broken the law, the Chinese foreign ministry said Monday. "China public security organs summoned Xu Wenli according to law for he has violated relevant regulations on parole," a spokesman fro... |
FBIS4-2455_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Security Spokesman on Arrests | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 11 (AFP) -- The Chinese ministry of security said Monday that police would continue "investigations" of leading dissidents Xu Wenli and Wei Jingsheng. "The police investigations of Xu Wenli and Wei Jingsheng continue," a ministry spokesman told AFP. An investigation of Tong Yi, Wei's secretary... |
FBIS4-2456_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Wang Fucheng Reportedly Beaten | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 11 (AFP) -- Three Chinese dissidents detained Friday and Saturday during the visit of French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur were released Sunday, the dissidents said Monday. One of them, Wang Fucheng, secretary-general of the Chinese Human Rights Association, said he was beaten for 20 minutes... |
FBIS4-2457_0 | Crackdown on Dissidents, Reporters Arrested Detained Dissidents Released | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 11 (AFP) -- The three Chinese dissidents detained Friday and Saturday during the visit of French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur were released Sunday, the dissidents said Monday. Bao Ge, Wang Fucheng and Yang Zhou were able to return home Sunday, but were placed under house arrest for most of ... |
FBIS4-2459_1 | Report: Foreign-Funded Plants Mistreat Workers | put into operation. On the whole, the labor relations in foreign- invested enterprises are stable, and most foreign-invested enterprises operate and organize production according to the law, but there are some quite serious labor-relations problems in some foreign-invested enterprises. According to surveys recently con... |
FBIS4-2459_3 | Report: Foreign-Funded Plants Mistreat Workers | in less than a month, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. Insult, Punishment, and Beating 2. Workers are insulted, punished, or beaten, and their personal rights are encroached upon at will. Some foreign-invested enterprises do not respect minimum human rights, ignore China's laws, and use extremely brutal and backw... |
FBIS4-2473_0 | Shantou SEZ Develops Export Labor Service | BFN [Text] Shantou, April 10 (XINHUA) -- Shantou city, one of China's special economic zones [SEZ] in Guangdong Province, has made efforts to develop its export of labor services. Now the city has formed labor export relations with a dozen countries and regions, and every year the city sends about 1,000 people to work ... |
FBIS4-2497_0 | Shanxi Store Employees Attack Price Inspectors | BFN [Unattributed report] [Text] Beijing, 11 Apr (XINHUA) -- On the afternoon of 22 March, a joint inspection team organized by the Xinzhou Prefecture and Xinzhou city, Shanxi Province, price inspection departments -- while inspecting price tags at the Guangxiu Department Store (a large, privately run retailer) -- were... |
FBIS4-2508_0 | Beijing `Tightening Control Over Dissidents' | BFN ["Report from Shanghai" by special correspondent Li Hsi-ping (2621 6007 1627): "Those Imprisoned in Relation to the 4 June Incident Are Warned Not To Get Together or Get In touch With Reporters From Outside the Mainland"] [Text] As there is only a bit more than one month before the fifth anniversary of the 4 June I... |
FBIS4-2512_4 | `Special Article' Views Xi Yang Case | be charged with "being lawless"? In fact, the speeches and actions of the extremely small handful of people who have maliciously attacked the Chinese Government by taking advantage of Xi Yang's case are out and out "lawless." This little handful of people are insisting that someone like Xi Yang -- who has already admit... |
FBIS4-2516_1 | Article Views Political Dissidents Arrests | business community to promote closer trade ties with China. Japan, Germany, Italy and France have defied the U.S. stance on human rights with leaders flooding into the middle kingdom to scramble for a bigger slice of the world's most lucrative and last untapped market. Last weekend, the visiting French Prime Minister E... |
FBIS4-2516_2 | Article Views Political Dissidents Arrests | been measurably enhanced following the North Korea nuclear crisis, in which Beijing's attitude has been crucial. The communist leadership has obviously became more confident than ever in obtaining unconditional MFN this June. In many ways, however, Wei's fate and the course of the Sino-American struggle over the profit... |
FBIS4-2518_0 | `Leading Beijing Scholar' Views Political Reform | BFN [By Bruce Gilley] [Text] There will be no significant changes in China's political system in the next one or two years, according to a leading Beijing scholar. "This year is a key period for economic reforms. Accelerating political reforms all depends on the success of that," said Pan Guohua, the vice-chairman of t... |
FBIS4-2522_0 | `Major Progress' Made in Copyright Protection | BFN [By reporter Chen Ping; from the "National Hookup" program] [Text] At a recent international seminar in Kunming on copyright protection and economic and cultural development in Asia, this reporter learned that China has made major progress in protecting intellectual property rights. China has preliminarily brought ... |
FBIS4-2527_0 | Xinjiang PLA Soldiers Arrest `Criminals' | BFN [From the "National Hookup" program] [Text] A number of advanced people who are ready to take up the cudgels for a just cause have emerged recently in the Xinjiang Military District. The regional military district issued a circular on commending and recording the merits of Zhou Fuqun, Zhang Wei, and other fighters ... |
FBIS4-2542_0 | Liaoning To Launch Water Resources Campaign | BFN [Text] Shenyang, April 8 (XINHUA) -- North-east China's Liaoning Province will launch a massive campaign to build new reservoirs and river diversion works, in a bid to remove the ever-worsening water shortages. On top of the agenda are four huge reservoirs -- Guanyinge, Dongfeng, Baishi and Yanwangbizi -- the first... |
FBIS4-2546_0 | Qinghai Emphasizes Protecting Power Installations | BFN [Text] The second provincial power installations protection work conference was recently convened by the provincial public security department and the electric power industry bureau. Thanks to faster hydropower resource exploitation, the province's electric power industry has witnessed an unprecedentedly fast growt... |
FBIS4-2577_0 | Beijing, Mauritania Sign Mineral Cooperation Agreement | BFN [Text] Beijing, 7 Apr (XINHUA) -- News from Nouakchott: While meeting on 6 April with Zhu Xun, China's minister of geology and mineral resources, Mauritanian President Taya said the sphere of friendly cooperation between Mauritania and China is extensive, developing rapidly, and has now extended to the area of geol... |
FBIS4-2595_3 | Paper Views Chinese, U.S. Policy on Korea | pressure. To ease the tense situation on the Korean peninsula and remove the war crisis there, China continued to actively persuade the United States and South and North Korea to patiently resolve their disputes through dialogue. China indicated to the United States: After the Cold War, the United States should no long... |
FBIS4-2596_0 | Ship Safety Inspections Urged for Asia-Pacific Area | BFN [By Xie Yicheng: "China Spurs Regional Aid For Ship Inspections"] [Text] China is stepping up efforts to ensure safer shipping conditions in the Asia-Pacific region by cementing its co-operation with surrounding nations on vessel inspections and port control. Zheng Guangdi, Vice-Minister of Communications, told the... |
FBIS4-2623_0 | International Symposium on Spark Program Closes 8 Apr | BFN [Text] Hangzhou, April 9 (XINHUA) -- The Spark Program has been very fruitful since it was launched eight years ago. More than 14 million experts in different fields have been trained in 367 state and 173 provincial centers, who have played a key role in the development of rural economy, especially in the coastal p... |
FBIS4-2628_1 | Paper Views Development of Korean Nuclear Crisis | said: As far as the United States is concerned, the main purpose and direct effect of bullying the DPRK is to guard against nuclear proliferation. The chief U.S. strategic consideration since World War II is that the greatest threat to the United States comprises nuclear weapons. Hence, the United States is extremely s... |
FBIS4-2663_0 | Criticizes MFN Status Deliberations | BFN [By reporter Xu Hong (1776 3216)] [Text] Los Angeles, 11 Apr (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)--Wu Yi, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation says, the practice whereby the United States deliberates China's MFN status every year has resulted in a sense of great instability in the minds of the broad industrial and c... |
FBIS4-2696_0 | AFP Informed of Release | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 13 (AFP) -- The Chinese government officially confirmed Wednesday that dissident Xu Wenli, detained last Friday in Beijing, is free. "Xu Wenli has complete freedom of movement," a Public Security Ministry spokesman told AFP by telephone. The spokesman said "Xu has been free since Saturday afte... |
FBIS4-2697_0 | Paper on Xu `House Arrest' | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall in Beijing] [Text] One of China's most prominent dissidents, Xu Wenli, has been released from police custody after being held for questioning for five days, relatives said yesterday. Mr Xu's sister said the former Democracy Wall activist was released from a police station yesterday morning and... |
FBIS4-2698_0 | Wives Describe Jailed Dissidents' Treatment | BFN [By Daniel Kwan] [Text] Shanghai dissident leader Zhang Xianliang was abused and attacked in a labour reform farm on the outskirts of the city, his wife said. Yan Huili, Zhang's wife, said her husband had lost about four kilograms, was suffering poor health and his meagre food rations were being stolen by other inm... |
FBIS4-2721_20 | Sichuan Procuratorate Work Report for 1993 | illegal activities which have occurred during trials in the people's courts, put forward 64 suggestions on redressing the problems. In investigating the 112 appeals which held that court decisions and rulings were erroneous, courts have heard 28 of these appeals and in 17 cases the decisions or rulings were changed. Th... |
FBIS4-2725_0 | Inner Mongolia Cracks Down on `Human Traffickers' | BFN [Text] At a time of strictly dealing blows to various criminal activities, the security organs across the region dedicated two months to waging a special struggle against abductors and traffickers of people. Twenty-eight criminal gangs were smashed, 110 human traffickers were arrested, and 170 women who had been ab... |
FBIS4-2727_2 | Heilongjiang Secretary on Opposing Corruption | have not been consolidated, and our work is still falling rather far behind and cannot satisfy the masses when considering the problems that actually exist and the expectations of the masses. Thus, the tasks for the next stage are still very arduous. This third plenary session of the provincial discipline inspection co... |
FBIS4-2730_0 | Liaoning Launches Campaign To Protect Environment | BFN [Text] Shenyang, April 13 (XINHUA) -- Northeast China's Liaoning Province is launching an environmental protection campaign to increase its residents' awareness of pollution problems. The province, one of the major heavy industrial centers in China, has been plagued by industrial pollution for a long time. Shenyang... |
FBIS4-2736_1 | Handling of Qiandao Hu Incident, Impact on Ties Faulted | damage to tourism of both sides of the strait, and in particular, they have left irremediable sadness among the family members of the dead. On neither side of the strait do compatriots wish to see such accidents. This is particularly so in the case of the recent Qiandao Hu incident, in which 24 Taiwan compatriots and e... |
FBIS4-2743_0 | Southeast Asia To Step Up Financial Cooperation | BFN [By Benjamin Yeh] [Text] Taipei, April 9 (CNA) -- Southeast Asian countries have indicated a strong willingness to strengthen financial cooperation with the Republic of China [ROC], Samuel C. Shieh, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), said Saturday [9 April]. "The willingness was repeatedly expressed when ... |
FBIS4-2748_0 | Dissident Xu Wenli Reportedly Released From Detention | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 12 (AFP)--Leading Chinese dissident Xu Wenli was released here Tuesday after spending five days in police detention for apparent parole violations, a friend of Xu's said. Xu, a leader of the 1978-79 Democracy Wall movement and one of China's longest serving political prisoners, had been detain... |
FBIS4-2753_0 | Power Industry More Prosperous in Qinghai | BFN [Text] Xining, April 13 (XINHUA) -- The development of power industry has given rise to a new economic structure featuring salt, petrochemical, steel, lead, magnesium, gold, asbestos and ferrosilicon production in this remote province of Qinghai Province. According to Liu Yingkuan, head of the provincial administra... |
FBIS4-2760_1 | Cost of Living Rises 24-25 Percent in March | The bureau expects the national cost of living to rise between 24 and 25 percent for March compared with 22.3 percent over the first two months of the year. Although considered by Beijing to be less important to social stability than the urban figure, the national rate is used for planning and reflects Beijing's failur... |
FBIS4-2773_0 | Legal Restrictions Proposed for Farmer-Run Coal Mines | BFN [By staff reporter Chang Weimin: "Accolades and Alarms Over Farmer-Run Mines"] [Text] In the 1970s, farmers needing coal were permitted to dig small pits beside large mines that had been monopolized by the State for decades. Since 1978 these farmer-run township mines have dug 4 billion tons of coal, and Vice-Premie... |
FBIS4-2773_1 | Legal Restrictions Proposed for Farmer-Run Coal Mines | 472 million tons last year, equal to that of key State-governed mines. With their help, China's annual production of coal has increased to 1.18 billion tons, compared with 618 million tons in 1978. But their lack of comprehensive planning and environmental safeguards has created serious pollution and wasted resources. ... |
FBIS4-2816_2 | Science, Technology Delegation Starts U.S. Visit | could cooperate to improve the technology of multiplying giant pandas. In a meeting with Neil Lane, chairman of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Song Jian expressed the hope of expanding cooperation in the field of "major sciences [da ke xue 1129 4430 1331]." Neil Lane was interested in China's desire to expand co... |
FBIS4-2830_0 | Sino-UK Adult Education Seminar Held in Jinan | BFN [Text] Jinan, April 14 (XINHUA) -- The first Sino-British adult education seminar was held yesterday in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. The seminar was co-sponsored by the Jinan-based Shandong Teacher's University (STU) and Nottingham College of Great Britain. More than 80 educators from Britain, ... |
FBIS4-2841_0 | Companies Willing To Invest in Southeast Asia | BFN [By Flor Wang] [Text] Taipei, April 13 (CNA) -- Responding to the "southern strategy" launched by the government last August to cool the Mainland investment fever among local business people, 271 local companies have shown a willingness to invest in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia, the Ministry of Economic ... |
FBIS4-2843_0 | UK Parliamentary Report Supports Patten Reforms | BFN [By David Healy in London and our Political Desk] [Text] An all-party committee of British MPs comes out strongly today in support of Governor Chris Patten's democratic package for Hong Kong. The influential Foreign Affairs Select Committee of British legislators rejects the evidence they heard from critics of Mr P... |
FBIS4-2843_1 | UK Parliamentary Report Supports Patten Reforms | Patten's electoral proposal was expected, but it would fuel the already tense Sino-British relationship. Independent legislator Christine Loh Kung-wai said she was disappointed at the committee's retraction from its 1989 position that full democracy be introduced before 1997. The report is deeply pessimistic about the ... |
FBIS4-2844_4 | Editorial Derides UK Parliamentary Report | it links Sino-British relations, which are now at a low ebb, with "human rights obstacles." Of the Western countries, Britain was the first to recognize China, but did it ever consider "human rights obstacles then?" Why were there no "human rights obstacles" in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, when Britain maint... |
FBIS4-2849_0 | Dissidents Cited on Tiananmen Square Anniversary | BFN [By Philippe Massonnet] [Text] Beijing, April 14 (AFP) -- Five years after the launch of a massive pro-democracy movement that made China's communist regime tremble with fear, the country's leadership is again on guard although most dissidents think the time is not ripe for another "Beijing Spring." "It's true that... |
FBIS4-2869_14 | Yunnan Communique on 1993 Economic Statistics | of prices out of policy consideration, market prices were fixed high and rose by large margins. Retail prices rose by 18.9 percent during the year, of which those in urban and rural areas rose by 16.3 and 20.2 percent respectively. Residents' costs of living rose by 21.3 percent, and those of urban and rural residents ... |
FBIS4-2871_1 | Beijing Holds First Adult Education Conference | for us to upgrade in an overall way the quality of people in China and to train a large number of talented personnel suitable to the demand of modernizations and a large number of high-quality laborers. Therefore, it is imperative to put education in a strategic position of priority development. Adult education is an i... |
FBIS4-2873_0 | Foreign Ministry Spokesman Holds News Briefing Says Wei Case Not Human Rights Issue | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 14 (AFP)--China's most celebrated dissident Wei Jingsheng is a criminal whose current detention and investigation should not be confused with the issue of human rights in China, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday [14 April]. "The case of Wei Jingsheng is by no means an issue of human r... |
FBIS4-2878_0 | Communications Ministry Issues Circular on Boating Safety | BFN [From the "National Hookup" program] [Text] The Ministry of Communications recently issued an emergency circular on strengthening control over safety during springtime. The circular bans lake or river cruises during springtime by boats and ships without a certificate of registry or an operating license. Units that ... |
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